Re: bitchx (sucks!) (forwarded, oops!)
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:24:00 -0600 (CST)
From: steven walsh <swalsh@mail.d.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: bitchx (sucks!)
To: morpheus@rpglink.com
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> I didn't guess, I RTFM'd. I read in the docs that BitchX is a
> derivative of ircII. The ircII man pages are included in the BX package.
> Gee, start there. Also it states that /bhelp (not /help!!!) is the BitchX
> help. /help depends on the ircII help files which, unless you've installed
> ircII, aren't there.
/bhelp is amusingly unsorted and approaches uselessness unless you
actually already know the command you want.
> /bhelp. How many times will I say that before it sinks in. I found
> that in the first 20-30 seconds when I first used BX.
See above.
> Could that be because your domain is banned? I bet it is. And why?
> Because they had problems with people from your domain flooding, spamming
> and clonning on their channel. Some of the channels I ran banned entire
> COUNTRIES because of people like that.
The ability of some IRCers to blatantly ban entire countries because of
the acts of a few is why EfNet is in a decline. Too many little kids fighting
for "power" in a virtual medium. It's funny in a sad sort of way.
> So far I've seen no evidence of that. So far all I've seen is a guy who
> does RTFM, is a clueless newbie who took a domain ban personally and is now
> whining publicly.
I dunno, all I see is an egotistical IRC/*nix user who is so high on his
own experiences that he can't handle answering a simple question without trying
to degrade him for _asking_.
"See you on the flip side"
- Steve Walsh (EfNet:#Babylon5:KnaraKat)
(swalsh@d.umn.edu)
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"See you on the flip side"
- Steve Walsh (EfNet:#Babylon5:KnaraKat)
(swalsh@d.umn.edu)
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